Throughout adolescence, youth imagine what the future holds and determine plans to
achieve their educational, professional, and personal goals. In this article, we review …

Aims Prior research documents strong associations between an increased sense of purpose
in life and improved health and well-being outcomes. However, less is known about …

This study investigates interfaith groups from across the United States to understand how
these religious settings may serve as mediating structures to facilitate individual political …

Required to manage multiple developmental tasks, multiple systems and processes are
involved in making adolescents thinking about and making plans for the future. The current …

While research has identified some positive factors in the lives of African‐American
adolescents, there is limited, yet growing, empirical research examining how positive factors …

Introduction Exposure to violence is a risk factor for firearm carriage. Youth exposed to
violence also have difficulty envisioning positive future outcomes (eg, educational …

Introduction Adolescents can be prone to mental health problems such as post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) and depression following disasters. School teachers can provide …

Although research reveals purpose can buffer youth from negative states in other contexts,
little is known about how youth with purpose function amidst significant economic …

Despite acknowledgment that character operates as a multi-faceted system of multiple
attributes, few efforts have examined this system by investigating how character attributes …

Neighborhood context, including the physical and social environment, has been implicated
as important contributors to positive youth development. A transactional approach to …